Anyone skied Hintertux in the summer?

We're thinking about visting Hintertux in the summer. Has anybody got any advice on where to stay etc and what the conditions are like on the Glacier in July?

I've been there for summer training a few times, my overriding memory is of poor visibilty in fact I can't bring a clear image of the place to my mind :D Just bad luck with my timing I suppose.

I must have stayed somewhere but I can't recall where, but, I'll have made a note of it some place I think, I'll see if I can find it. I find just calling up the tourist office is generally OK, I've a huge faith in Austrian accommodation.

Glacier skiing's getting a bit of a marginal thing, there's been a couple of years of really poor conditions. Apparently some race training has had a really hard time, the snow's been so soft that they can't even drill in to get gates up. It's always been the case that you need to be riding the first lift at 0700 or earlier but it's getting unskiable even by 1000 nowadays.

I love hintertux, I have skied the Glacier many times but not in the summer. Places to stay, I have stayed at pension burgshrofn in lannersbach, ok it may be a bit far but if you can still take the busses (i'm not sure whether they still run in the summer) then it is only a 10 minute ride.

At the foot of the Glacier is the Hotel Nue Hintertux, a bit pricey, my other half's uncle works there, We have never stayed there though but it is meant to be quite nice.

hope this helps

cheers

Max

I just got back from there. I hit the glacier in late July after their hottest heat spell in over a century. The slopes were VERY rough and icy. After 12 the glacier turns bad very quickly. It starts to melt under your skis, or in my case under my boots. There are GREAT places to stay in Innsbruck There is a hotel in the Bahnhof that's great and on the cheaper side. Then there is Hotel Europa which was GRAND. Then there is always the lovely (not) Hotel Schwaz krankenhaus ( It's a joke, seriously) I guess this is too late of a post but hope you had fun and didn't die out there :)

-peace
IG